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Les Hazlewood
CTO, Katasoft, Inc.

Les Hazelwood is co-founder and CTO of Stormpath, a cloud security start-up, and the Apache Shiro PMC Chair. Prior to forming Stormpath, he held senior architecture positions at Bloomberg and Delta Airlines and he was former CTO of a software engineering firm supporting educational and government agencies. Les has been actively involved in Open Source development for more than 10 years, committing or contributing to to projects like the Spring Framework, JBoss, OpenSpaces, and of course Apache Shiro. Les currently lives in San Mateo, CA and practices Kendo and studies Japanese when he’s not programming.

Securing your applications can be a painful and confusing process, but it doesn't have to be. Apache Shiro simplifies all aspects of application security without sacrificing power or flexibility. Les Hazlewood, Apache Shiro PMC Chair, will explain all of Shiro's core features and demonstrate how to easily secure your own application- from small mobile to large enterprise applications.
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